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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:40:33 -0700
From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
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To: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?
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Glyn Astill wrote:
> Most likely just a forged header or something, hardly hacked
> though is it.

Yes, hack is the correct term.  The bad guys have hacked into the major email systems, including gmail, which was the origin of this spam:

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/gmail_captcha_crack/

>  I think you need to do some training:
> http://www2.b3ta.com/bigquiz/hacker-or-spacker/

Sending a link to a web site that plays loud rap music is not a friendly way to make your point.

Craig

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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
>> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
>> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2008 4:02:37 PM
>> Subject: [PERFORM] Mailing list hacked by spammer?
>>
>> I've never gotten a single spam from the Postgres mailing list ... until today.  
>> A Chinese company selling consumer products is using this list.  I have my 
>> filters set to automatically trust this list because it has been so reliable 
>> until now.  It would be really, really unfortunate if this list fell to the 
>> spammers.
>>
>> Craig
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